Funding for treated timber waste minimisation projectFriday 22 Mar 2013 A project to look at the potential of a large scale collection, recycling or recovery of hazardous treated timber waste will benefit from NZ$145,000 of NZ Government funding.<The treated timber waste minimisation project is led by Environment Canterbury in partnership with the Canterbury Waste Joint Committee, Christchurch City Council, BRANZ and Scion. "This is a very positive project for Canterbury and New Zealand," says Chris Keeling, Environment Canterbury Senior Hazardous Substances and Waste Officer. “It will allow us to address one of the more problematic areas of waste by giving us a chance to look for some better disposal options than what is out there already. "Because of the Canterbury earthquakes there are huge quantities of waste timber that need to be managed in an environmentally and economically sustainable way. This project provides an opportunity to investigate alternative disposal methods for treated timber with the aim of reusing, recycling or recovering as much as possible while also setting us up for the future." Mr Keeling explains that currently there are not many disposal options available, certainly none that utilise the material as a resource and they hope this project will lead to more options being offered. "The project will run over a year and will mainly focus on environmental and economic feasibility so that any disposal methods will be sustainable once up and running." Re-directing timber waste streams into revenue-generating products is the focus of the upcoming FIEA RESIDUES TO REVENUES & CLEANTECH Conference running at the Novotel Auckland Airport Hotel and Bayview Eden Hotel in Melbourne in April. Click here to register or check out the detailed programme. |
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